Donate Your Old Video Tapes
Two incredible companies have greatly contributed to the success of our videocassette donation program:
American Airlines keeps ACT humming every business day of the year. Since the airline became a donor in October 1992, about 430,000 tapes have been donated. American Airlines provides about 4,500 videotapes a month to ACT. Each month a cargo van leaves from Columbia for American Airlines’ air cargo facility at St. Louis International Airport. There await boxes of long-length videotapes ready for recycling at ACT. The tapes are valuable because they are 70 minutes or more in length. Because they are long-length tapes, ACT earns more revenue from the tapes than shorter, less popular lengths. In addition to the valuable tapes, American Airlines employees who load the tapes are always friendly and helpful.
The generosity of Industrial Recyclers of Wisconsin has also helped keep ACT clients working steadily processing videotapes. Recent videotape donations helped provide two weeks of employment for 30 ACT clients. In recent months the firm has donated 84,606 videotapes to ACT. The tapes are brand new and still packaged in shrink wrap. The tapes also are 120 minutes in length, a variety that rarely is donated. Recent shipments over the past several months “came at the perfect time when work was getting low,” says Don Lafferty, affirmative industry program director. “It’s a great donation. It’s much better for the organization to get a tape in its original packaging because it provides more jobs for our adults. “We’re fortunate to have a donor like Industrial Recyclers,” he says. “Without donations like theirs we wouldn’t have the number of jobs available for our adults with disabilities.”
To place a donation, complete and submit the Online Donor Form.
